The Health Of The Country How American Settlers Understood Themselves And Their Land

By Conevery Bolton Valencius

Book Overview

Many have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these settlers' self-consciousness about what they were doing, what "settling" and cultivating the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465089860
• ISBN13: 9780465089864
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

top-notch

Really well-written history of what at first appears to be a very small slice of 19th-century America. This book takes a seemingly straightforward idea that settlers moved to get to better--and literally healthier--land and uses the idea as a lens through which to understand much of 19th-century America. And, amazingly, her strategy works. Her arguments are convincing and I definitely felt like I was learning new ideas and fascinating tidbits all along the way.